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Design Build Services Add a Construction Department to Your Team

Wolgast Corporation

When you choose to work with a design-builder, you’re adding a whole construction department to your business team that’s dedicated to completing a turn-key project as if it were their own. Turn-key in this instance includes initial concept through design, construction, and a 1-year warranty program.

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Effective Marketing For Diverse Construction Job Categories

Construction Marketing

Architects Design and plan construction projects, considering both aesthetic and functional aspects. Engineers (Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical) Civil engineers focus on the design and maintenance of infrastructure. Structural engineers design and analyze structures for stability and safety.

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Listing of LEAN Construction Practices

Job Order Contracting

Concurrent Engineering (CE). Design Structure Matrix (DSM). Design Workshop or Big Room. Pull Scheduling/Planning. Target Value Design (TVD). Virtual Design Construction (VDC). Work Structuring and Scheduling. Benchmarking. Conference Management (CM). Daily clustering/huddle meeting. First Run Study.

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The benefits of biophilic design in the built environment

BD+C

The benefits of biophilic design in the built environment 0 qpurcell Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:30 Biophilic Design Biophilic design in the built environment supports the health and wellbeing of individuals, as they spend most of their time indoors. Biophilic design in schools can enhance student learning and improve performance.

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Balancing construction realities with ideal fenestration design

Construction Specifier

Regan, PE Providing a comfortable and attractive interior space for the building’s inhabitants is a primary concern of the design team. Submittals process During construction, the first place the design team will review information for the project is during the submittal process.

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Many Designers Dislike Schedules, But Welcome Pull Planning

Lean Construction

That's the phrase I most often hear when architects and engineers respond to how long some design deliverable will take to complete. When pushed, you may get a response, but it won't be accurate. Contractors have a go-to answer, too, "about two weeks."

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Structural Fire Engineering Can Improve Building Safety, Schedule

ENR Construction

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD.